CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #702

It’s beginning to look a lot like con-tests…

The scores after the last round:

cgmv123	90
petercooperjr	82
EricH	82
efoote868	78
ctt956	77
GeeTwo	69
Wayne Doenges	62
GaryVoshol	56
carpedav000	54
DonRotolo	53
bdaroz	50
Leap	46
Nessie	41
Pooja Anil	32
marcusbernstein	27
Hitchhiker 42	24
Bkeeneykid	20
logank013	18
Cyberphil	16
dodar	14
niklas674	14
Thayer McCollum	13
RoboDesigners	12
IndySam	12
Hess1113	10
asid61	8
KaranY	8
WillNess	7
frcguy	6
Al Skierkiewicz	6
bobbysq	6
rsisk	4
Jon Stratis	4
SassyJapan	4
Charlie.bishop	4
tjf	4
snoman	3
Taylor	2
Golfer4646	2
gcgeobuff	2
Cothron Theiss	2
ollien	2
AustinShalit	2
OwenDotCode	2
Levi Madden	2
fargus111111111	2
Brian M	2
bbensel	2
Tom Ore	2
OMGRobots1	2
MattR501	2
holygrail	2

The rules, for the newbies.

And the picture:

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/34445

As always, the deadline is nominally Sunday at midnight Eastern. Wouldn’t advise pushing the deadline, don’t want to be up when Santa shows up.

Go!

Santa: Next time, send real elves, OK?
Students: We don’t have any elves in FRC. No, seriously.
Santa: Then get these hats and shoes on or you’re all getting Fuel in your stockings this year!

[npoe] I did actually do a look to see if any FRC teams had “elf” or “elves” in the name. Not per TBA![/npoe]

One of these volunteers is not like the other.
Yes, you guessed it, the one not looking at the camera.

Santa walked into the wrong workshop, but everyone still got toys.

Having Santa as a mentor has its advantages, including North Pole Inc sponsorship, unlimited overnight shipping, access to a limited amount of elf labor, and a small amount of workshop space. It also has a few challenges as well. The workshop has low ceilings. The elves aren’t very good at rapid prototyping. And while FRC has been increasing fix-it windows and stretching the build season, Santa mandates the team stop build at exactly 6 weeks, otherwise his other deadlines may suffer. Overall a wash.

Thanks to Santa Claus sponsoring us, we get automatic passage placement on the “nice” list

And while the robotics kids take a group photo with Santa, Pat takes a selfie with Santa in the background.

“If you’ve been really good this year, you just might get a game hint for Christmas.”

Frank Merrick as Santa brings Game Hints in your stockings.

Typical robotics kids. They don’t look at the rules, even when it says “READ IT!” in large type.

Is it my imagination, or are these elves getting bigger?

Santa was pleased with his new workshop until the resident FRC team hijacked it for 6 weeks after Kickoff…

Elves are actually really shy, so they need to recruit humans to do the actual giving.

Here’s proof of the new super-fast camera that was developed in Cali - it can even catch Santa posing for a picture during his super speedy journey.

[NPOE]Merry Christmas![/NPOE]

Students: Hey, Maybe if we’re nice, Santa will grant us everything on our FIRST choice list?
Santa: HO HO HO NOPE

Finally!

First place goes to:

Second place goes to:

And the burn award goes to:

Which means the scores are:

cgmv123	92
efoote868	88
EricH	87
petercooperjr	84
ctt956	79
GeeTwo	71
Wayne Doenges	64
GaryVoshol	58
DonRotolo	55
carpedav000	54
bdaroz	52
Leap	46
Nessie	41
Pooja Anil	35
marcusbernstein	27
Hitchhiker 42	26
Bkeeneykid	20
logank013	18
Cyberphil	18
dodar	14
niklas674	14
Thayer McCollum	13
RoboDesigners	12
IndySam	12
Hess1113	10
KaranY	10
asid61	8
WillNess	7
frcguy	6
Al Skierkiewicz	6
bobbysq	6
rsisk	4
Jon Stratis	4
SassyJapan	4
Charlie.bishop	4
tjf	4
snoman	3
Taylor	2
Golfer4646	2
gcgeobuff	2
Cothron Theiss	2
ollien	2
AustinShalit	2
OwenDotCode	2
Levi Madden	2
fargus111111111	2
Brian M	2
bbensel	2
Tom Ore	2
OMGRobots1	2
MattR501	2
holygrail	2

Onward!